St. George's Anglican Church (Antigua)
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| place | Fitches Creek , Antigua and Barbuda | |
| Construction year | 1735 | |
| Coordinates | 17 ° 7 '43.4 " N , 61 ° 47' 15.1" W | |
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Saint George’s Church is an Anglican parish church in Fitches Creek on the northwest coast of the Caribbean island of Antigua in the state of Antigua and Barbuda . As the parish of St. George's with St. Mark's and St. Francis, it belongs to the diocese of North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba of the Church in the Province of the West Indies . It is dedicated to Saint George , the early patron saint of England.
history
Even at the beginning of colonization, the Fitch's Creek Estate was located here , a plantation of the Fitch family, one of the largest on the island. A first chapel can be found here in 1687.
Initially a branch church of St. Philip’s near Parham , it was raised to a parish in 1725 and set up as a rectorate (financially independent parish). Numerous other settlements had developed between the two ports of St. John’s Harbor and Parham (Old North Sound Harbor), and the routes to St. Philip’s became too far. The island was thus divided into the six parishes that still form the political parishes today, the Parish of Saint George is the smallest on the island.
In 1735 it was rebuilt in its current appearance.
The church by the sea, however, remained isolated, the places, especially Barnes Hill and Piggotts , developed mainly inland. Through the construction of the Coolidge Air Force Base (today VC Bird ) in World War II, the church was isolated from the first place, Coolidge and the resettled New Winthorpes : today it is primarily the village church of the mansion village Fitches Creek, which only opened in the late 20th century Century developed.
Spared earthquakes, the church was badly damaged by Hurricane Dog in 1950 and took 15 years to rebuild. When Hurricane Luis in 1995 it was again devastated, and then dedicated the 2,001th
The parish today also includes the subsidiary churches ( English Chapel of Ease ) St. Marks in Piggotts and St. Francis .
architecture
The towerless church building resembles a farmhouse in its appearance from the 1730s, the manor house (English country house) in stone-faced, compact design. It is believed that the church is a structural extension of the old chapel from 1687. It is presented as three single-storey houses arranged lengthways, which result in a three-aisled church building. The facade is thus symmetrically divided into three equal gable parts, each with a central wooden gate and gable windows above, and with high windows in between, all set off with round arches and white furs in the stone masonry, each with a small stucco cross as the only decoration. The façade is closed on both sides by corner pilasters with simple little fields that emphasize the width. A first-high, two-storey portico- like Söller in a clunky concrete construction is presented in the middle wing, which probably follows an earlier analog building element, but as a strange foreign body impressively represents the effort to ensure storm-proof construction.
The church, located off the main roads on the northern edge of Fitches Creek, is located in a stone-walled park, only a few dozen meters from the sea, and offers a wide view of the village, Fitches Creek Bay and Parham Habour .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b St George's Church, Antigua. Blog posted by Mark in Images by Mark Summerfield , msummerfieldimages.com, July 29, 2013, accessed March 13, 2014 (with photos of the Church).
- ^ An Act for dividing the Parish of Saint Peter in the said Island; and for erecting a new Parish, to be called the Parish of Saint George . Laws of the Island of Antigua, 12th Geo. In O. 184, AD 1725; in Anthony Brown: The Laws of the Island of Antigua: Consisting of the Acts of the Leeward Islands, Coming 8 Novem. 1690 Ending April 21, 1798, and the Acts of Antigua Commencing April 10, 1668, ending May 7, 1804 . Bagster, 1805, p. 245 ff .
- ↑ (author unknown): Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants. Volume I, Saunders and Otley, 1844, Chapter VIII., Section John Hart (republished Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition. Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-02777-9 , p. 86; restricted Preview in Google Book Search; full text on gutenberg.org).
- ↑ St. George's Anglican Church ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , visitantiguabarbuda.com
- ↑ Christopher Beale: Antigua and Barbuda: Island Guide (= Other Places travel guides ). Other Places Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-615-21837-3 , St. George's Church , pp. 96 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Suzanne Gordon, Anne Hersh: Searching for Sugar Mills: An Architectural Guide to the Eastern Caribbean . MacMillan Caribbean, 2005, ISBN 978-0-333-76151-9 , Antigua: (14) St. George's Church , pp. 21 , col. 2 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ St Georges Church - Antigua. Photo on panoramio.com
